Fantasy Football: Yahoo Fantasy’s must-draft players for 2024

The team at Yahoo Fantasy is determined to ensure you have a successful fantasy football season. That success (hopefully) begins right at the start of your fantasy drafts. Here, our team identifies five of their “must-draft” players in 2024.

As a longtime resident of Pacheco Island, Kansas City’s featured back has found his way onto most of my rosters. I’ve had Pacheco ranked as a first-round back for months. He was a massive and obvious offseason winner, as the Chiefs never made a significant addition to their backfield.

Pacheco has always been a dynamic and hard-charging runner, plus he answered any questions about his receiving ability last season when he hauled in 44 of 49 targets. Simply put, he’s a talented back tied to one of the NFL’s elite offenses. No need to overthink it. — Andy Behrens

The Bears rookie wide receiver was one of my favorite prospects of the last five years. Odunze is a do-it-all threat at the wide receiver position who separates with speed and precise route running, in addition to excellent contested catch chops. I understand why there’s a cataclysmic ADP gap between Marvin Harrison Jr. (16th overall) and Malik Nabers (41st overall) all the way down to Odunze (84th overall) given the number of projectable targets.

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However, that is in no way reflective of their respective talents. Odunze was just as pristine a prospect as those two. He’s paired with a gifted young quarterback in Caleb Williams who already has a preference for his fellow rookie in scramble-drill situations. Odunze is a value at WR38, and a guy I’ll bet ends up being the WR2 on this offense, at worst, by the end of the season. — Matt Harmon

It took a while for the Chiefs to trust Rashee Rice last year, but he was a central part of the run to a championship. Over his final 10 games (playoffs included), Rice posted a juicy 69-780-4 line; over a full season, those numbers would rank top five at the position.

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Publish date : 2024-08-29 15:07:45

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